From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] stash completion miscellany
Message-ID: <4f14a14a-99a9-4a01-bbab-ee1630e109f6@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1792761643.git.ben.knoble@gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026, at 15:20, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> This short patch series takes care of a few paper cuts in stash
> completion. The first patch is a small code cleanup I noticed a while
> back while working on bfc1b34859 (completion: add stash import, export,
> 2026-02-07), I think. The next 2 take care of a problem I've been having
> with Zsh's completion of stashes (cf. Unix & Linux SE [1]).
>
> [1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/807580/301073
>
>[snip]
>
> Generated-with: git format-patch @{u}.. -o p -v2
> --range-diff=@{u}..d1d0bf2d9a7d380d10771b5d1bceb8db91c5f05e
> --in-reply-to=cover.1791827304.git.ben.knoble@gmail.com --cc='Patrick
> Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>'
>
> I accidentally left the above line in v1, but I'm considering leaving it in from
> now on?

;)

> It's the exact command I run to generate patches; I store it as a
> "trailer" in the branch description, then run "git generated-with"† which
> (effectively) does
>
>     eval "$(git bdesc | git interpret-trailers --parse | grep
> ^Generated-with | cut -d: -f 2-)"
>
> where "bdesc" is an alias for
>
>     git -c core.editor=cat branch --edit-description | git stripspace -s
>
> Anyway, I've been hand-editing them out of cover letters for the last few
> series, but if it doesn't bother anyone I'll just leave it around. Might be
> helpful for new folks learning how to format patches?

I think it’s a decent-to-good idea to leave it in.

>
> †:
> https://github.com/benknoble/Dotfiles/blob/master/links/bin/git-generated-with
>[snip]